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This quote reflects the psychological risk of confronting evil or darkness-both externally and within oneself. "He who fights with monsters" warns that engaging with malevolence, whether through trauma, curiosity, or necessity, can subtly transform a person, conditioning their psyche to adopt the very traits they oppose. This transformation often stems from repeated exposure or immersion in negative thoughts or actions, leading to either desensitization or assimilation. The "abyss" symbolizes the unknown depths of the psyche, where darker aspects of the self reside. Gaze too long into it, and it begins to reflect back a distorted image of oneself. This is a metaphor for self-reflection turned obsessive: when one dwells on harmful thoughts or unresolved trauma, those thoughts risk becoming internalized, shaping actions and identity over time. The abyss can also represent the enigmatic workings of the mind-those gaps in understanding the "how" and "why" behind human behavior. Engaging too deeply with this unknown can create a dialogue within the self, where one's perception shifts, influenced by the very darkness they sought to comprehend. i hope, otherwise I missed the entire fucking point
@@inexistent3rdchimera673 yep, if you're not nuanced enough to catch it via the structure ...always look for the line spacers where commas should be lol "Mind-those gaps.." dead give away its just an AI response
Studying Nietzsche since 2021 or so has taught me so much about myself, and also helps me with battling my OCD and autism. I've meditated on my own inner demons and how they probably arose, and now I'm doing the same with my values and views, and how they formed as well. It has been an absurdly enlightening experience and I shed so much light on trying to understand my own questioning of things no one else seems to question. Like why are values like "truth" and "equality" seen as unassailably moral, and their antitheses as the ultimate evil. Truth and equality are obviously good things, but only when they directly benefit and help real people. I always questioned why so many people are assholes and even sadists in the name of Truth and Equality in their most abstract forms, and are only seen as heroes because they hurt people who are on the side of "Ignorance" and "Inequality," not because they help people on the side of Truth and Equality. I read Geneology of Morals in 2022 and never before have I felt so validated. That experience has been a net positive on my outlook on life.
You dont have austism or ocd, you manifest that you do by diagnosing yourself. You can just as easily tell yourself you don't have ocd and autism and start healing
Thanks for going into this one Weltgeist. I never fully understood this one from Nietzsche. The abyss is the self looking back at itself? The fear of looking into nothingness. The fear of one's own annihilation I suppose... when you question yourself too much, what is left?
Question- what should be the balance between criticing yourself constructively and reflecting upon things and being proud of your accomplishments letting it big up your ego?
@@Ztrading1 im not sure if there is a balance between those two things as I dont think they are mutually exclusive. If you find something youre doing that you dont like, work on changing it. It doesnt have to bruise your ego and infact it should empower you since you know that youre just trying to become your best you. Dont let your head get too big for your shoulders and always look for ways to improve
Great work. We are the masses at the tightrope walker's show by default, for someone to take the time to unpack Nietzsche so we are snapped out of our brain fog is a service to humanity. The world is enriched.
Loved the video! I was actually thinking about this quote a lot recently after listening to an audiobook called "he who fights with monsters" so your timing was perfect.
I can tell you from personal experience that when the abyss stares back it is terrifying. For instance, have you ever thought you might have actually died from something you've done and you're in a hell where everything just repeats, until you realize? You can't think your way out of the problem, because there is no way to know, no proof.
I know that these personal weird paranoias hit hard but nowadays such a hypothetical horror feels clearly just that: weird intellectual paranoia. Still: There are enough abyses for everyone. 😁
Only 25 minutes in but that was an amazing breakdown of a large amount of history and theology, essentially the entire foundation of “modern” man with his platonic mindset
Been studying psychology and philosophy and struggling to grapple and balance the 2 and this answered questions i didn’t know needed to be asked, continue on your path and thank you for your efforts. I hope this comment fuels you to continue what your doing (even if you are doing it for the chase of power and power over others 😉😂)
Depth and profundity are hand in hand because it's the depth which things arise out of, the trunk off which the branches manifest in their own shape but are inexorably tied to the same source. It can be interpreted in many ways because it manifests in many ways.
Eh the problem is that Nietche never understood the Greeks. Plato has nothing to do with Christianity whatsoever. Plato comes from a loooooong ancient tradition of what we call here in Greece Orphicopythagoreans. Philosophy is a very specific path. Achieving Eudaimonia and virtue. Plato never talks about "escaping". Plato was Pagan. Christianity is something that was created with some elements of greek philosophy, Zoroastrianism, bit of Egypt, bit of Mesopotamia. Whatever they could use to make the dogma believable. To construct a religion in order to control the masses. Regarding Odyssey. The name Odysseus comes from the greek verb odyssomai. It means going through struggles, being hated and so on. The journey of Odysseus is the journey back to his higher self its all full of metaphors and deep psychological meanings. And not only psychological, philosophical, astronomical it goes deep. It is literally the story of the soul on its way of "becoming". Exactly what Plato says this world is the world of "becoming" Gignesthai in greek. ΓΊΓΝΕΣΘΑΙ. Related word to genesis and gnosis. Penelope represents the soul of Odysseus... Pure greek thought is all about becoming one with the Agathon right here and now. Its all about self actualisation and uniting with the Cosmos by understanding the cosmic laws and cosmic Justice. Thats the Truth. And this is something that we are supposed to do right here and now. Not "escaping" somewhere else in the world of forms... The world of forms is to understand what is true and what is not true. And Nietche with his german western upbringing could not grasp it, he makes wrong assumptions. Christianity is actually alien to Plato. Christianity used some aspects of greek philosophy to make the dogma a bit more sophisticated than how it was in the very beginning. Read for example Celsus (if you find a good translation as far as i know one that excists is from a translator with a very "christian approach) if you read it in greek you will be surprised to get an understanding of how greek philosophers (and he was a platonic philosopher) were seeing the first Christians. It reminds the Woke movement... Our modern Western thinking is the thinking of the metrauma that Christianity has brought. We carry on living in a metachristian upside down world. Noone has understood the greeks. To understand the greeks you need to take the rationality of the west together with the understanding of the east and then start digging deeper and deeper. Gretings from Greece 🏛️
Both truth and untruth, good and evil, are true and real. It is only perception of these opposites that gives them any meaning or reality. The laws of the universe do not see that any of them are right or wrong, they all just are.
Adding nietzsche in top 3 psychologist of the 20th century and removing Jung is sacrilege. At best, he's an honorable mention. I'd rather place him fully in philosophy.
I have an example, when you start driving you say "I don't care they honk, or move slow in front of me I will just stay calm and not do anything stupid", then only a couple months later you are the one honking at people moving too slow, getting easily annoyed. Such a benine example fits so well
Hang on, what? 0:42 You drink black coffee?! Nah. NAH. Be gone! In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, you Devil conceived from the bleakest womb, The Power of Christ compels you!
life is one who got divided into two, and for all of its existence, all it searches for, is reuniting with the other, and which ever form, it will use its capacity, howerever it is capable, to reunite with that other. indefinetly.
How about becoming a being. Conceptuallizing the ideal followed by the attempt of becoming it. This has carried the achievements of civilization to the present. One could say that our shortcomings are directly tied to our cuurent onging inability to shed the lies we hold. The abiguity of what is true or false is the source of untold time and energy wasted Decisions over solutions to existential problems must contain a higher level of truth than falsehood or extiction is tomorrow's problem.
I sometimes think these big-brain philosophers make up nonsense to have a laugh while we're trying to understand what they are talking about, albeit maniacal, it's also true. Here is one to think about: "Was it the apple before the tree, or the tree before the apple"
Bringing the State of Nature into the commune sounds stressful as hell, Nietche; but your hearts in the right place. Temper Mankind to perfection. Way too many 'fragiles' on this ol' fraggle rock. Work: in physics, measure of energy transfer that occurs when an object is moved over a distance by an external force (My Will) at least part of which is applied in the direction of the displacement. (My Victim). He's telling us to put in the work! W = fd I swiped that from Encyclopedia Britannica btw. Didn't have my Funk and Wagnels on me.
Δει ημας ιδειν εν ημιν τα απολυοντα αλλ ουκ αυτα απολυομεν. We must behold within ourselves the things that destroy without destroying them. (I am still in the process of learning Koine, but the wording of this sentence was so cool I had to try to make it. If anyone knows better how to convey this in Koine I would love guidance)
I didn't know that Miura Kentaro ("Berserk") was so inspired by Nietzsche. The Lost Children ark is basically about the same. We should face our own battles and not escape reality to look for some fairy tales. I like to see the same motives in philosophy and fiction
47:40 I feel this isn't very 'Nietzschean'. Creatures do things because it's in their instincts, and much compassion etc is from creatures who have simply instincts for empathy and loving and so on. I feel that recognising this isn't retreating into some 'nice' view of the world avoiding some scary ugliness, rather I think that itself has all sorts of harsh rammifications for other things. I think Nietzsche is shying away from reality a bit here. I listen to your videos and I'm often surprised by Nietzsche as I'm not into philosophy but it's like discovering someone lived long ago who thinks the same way I naturally do, but sometimes Nietzsche just suddenly comes across as... duno, a bit naive or an amateur. I guess maybe it's a reflection of his own nature as a creature he can't understand the nature of some others. The very thing he's doing in this is appealing to some sense of Universality of the 'humans', as if humans are all the same; he's talking in these universals which contradict his supposed understanding of what morality depends upon your nature as a creature, not any sort of universality or truth.
Certainly, the pre Platonic Greeks were not fools bereft of a capacity to infer logically that particular actions were more important than others in achieving desirable outcomes specifically because of their inception from truth. There is continued admiration for the "trickster" within many cultures variously through the world despite the ubiquity of Christianity. Dare I say even more admiration, recently, through the anonymity of the internet.
I don't think any conscience being fell out of one,but there does seem to be quite the interest in residing in one, the ultimate echo chamber. The oldest orator of all.
Weltgeist, i want to translate Mainländer's oeuvre to my native language, portuguese. I can already read spanish, french and english, so that will definetly help. Besides studying german, what should i do to complete this task?
Do you think Nietzsche believed that the origin of "slave morality" began with the ancient Greek philosophers like Socrates and Plato, whose distaste for the Homeric myths fueled their pursuit for objective truth? Or do you think that Nietzsche believed that "slave morality originated more from Judeo-Christian morality?
As Nietzsche said, Christianity is the platonism of the masses. Christianity (and Judaism too, see Gnostic Informant’s channel for that) took heavy inspiration from Hellenic philosophy and religion. It continued this emerging idealist worldview of the Platonists, but also in many ways also refined and perfected it.
no need an hour long video. The meaning of quote is - we are a sum of our experience. There's only as many times as you can be exposed to something until it leaves mark. Ask policemen or soldiers.
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This quote reflects the psychological risk of confronting evil or darkness-both externally and within oneself. "He who fights with monsters" warns that engaging with malevolence, whether through trauma, curiosity, or necessity, can subtly transform a person, conditioning their psyche to adopt the very traits they oppose. This transformation often stems from repeated exposure or immersion in negative thoughts or actions, leading to either desensitization or assimilation. The "abyss" symbolizes the unknown depths of the psyche, where darker aspects of the self reside. Gaze too long into it, and it begins to reflect back a distorted image of oneself. This is a metaphor for self-reflection turned obsessive: when one dwells on harmful thoughts or unresolved trauma, those thoughts risk becoming internalized, shaping actions and identity over time. The abyss can also represent the enigmatic workings of the mind-those gaps in understanding the "how" and "why" behind human behavior. Engaging too deeply with this unknown can create a dialogue within the self, where one's perception shifts, influenced by the very darkness they sought to comprehend. i hope, otherwise I missed the entire fucking point
That's it
Based
the gaps started making sense...they cracked wide into pathways
thank you chatgpt
@@inexistent3rdchimera673 yep, if you're not nuanced enough to catch it via the structure ...always look for the line spacers where commas should be lol "Mind-those gaps.." dead give away its just an AI response
Are my eyes deceiving me? A one hour video by Weltgeist??? Let me get my snacks and Nietzsche plushie
I see a Soy Jack reading this
Essentialsalts (ignore the name) is probably a channel you’d adore
@ I already follow him 😭
We did a podcast episode together too
@ I’m still bookmarked in that one - I adore both your channels 💙💙
Studying Nietzsche since 2021 or so has taught me so much about myself, and also helps me with battling my OCD and autism. I've meditated on my own inner demons and how they probably arose, and now I'm doing the same with my values and views, and how they formed as well. It has been an absurdly enlightening experience and I shed so much light on trying to understand my own questioning of things no one else seems to question.
Like why are values like "truth" and "equality" seen as unassailably moral, and their antitheses as the ultimate evil. Truth and equality are obviously good things, but only when they directly benefit and help real people. I always questioned why so many people are assholes and even sadists in the name of Truth and Equality in their most abstract forms, and are only seen as heroes because they hurt people who are on the side of "Ignorance" and "Inequality," not because they help people on the side of Truth and Equality. I read Geneology of Morals in 2022 and never before have I felt so validated. That experience has been a net positive on my outlook on life.
You dont have austism or ocd, you manifest that you do by diagnosing yourself. You can just as easily tell yourself you don't have ocd and autism and start healing
Are you writing from personal experience? @egokilla1063
You type I, me and my with narcissistic frequency.
@@piggerGg I take that as a huge complement. Have a great day
@@piggerGg The fact that you could tell someone is a narcissist or not caught my eyes,truly amazing.
I absolutely love the long form content. Often times, these kinds of subjects need a lot of fleshing out, and this video did an incredible job.
Great to hear!
Wow this is one of the best videos I’ve watched in a while. Big props to you Weltgeist 👍🏽
Glad you enjoyed it
This is perhaps the most thorough and informative explanation of Nietzsche's ideas I've ever seen. Fantastic work!
Thank you!
this is going to be a certified philosophy classic!
Damn, son, where'd you find the abyss?
Weltgeist is back!
Holy shit someone who made a philosophy video that ACTUALLY READ THE PHILOSOPHY BOOK. I wish I could subscribe twice
Fantastic video Weltgeist, really well done, thanks for this
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for going into this one Weltgeist. I never fully understood this one from Nietzsche. The abyss is the self looking back at itself? The fear of looking into nothingness. The fear of one's own annihilation I suppose... when you question yourself too much, what is left?
Glad it was helpful!
Question- what should be the balance between criticing yourself constructively and reflecting upon things and being proud of your accomplishments letting it big up your ego?
@@Ztrading1 im not sure if there is a balance between those two things as I dont think they are mutually exclusive. If you find something youre doing that you dont like, work on changing it. It doesnt have to bruise your ego and infact it should empower you since you know that youre just trying to become your best you. Dont let your head get too big for your shoulders and always look for ways to improve
@@ibaili 2... Disappointed Nietzsche noises
@@SouthpawJoe i dont get it
Another fantastic explication of Nietzsche’s thought. Thank you for all of your hard work making these videos
Glad you like them!
Great work. We are the masses at the tightrope walker's show by default, for someone to take the time to unpack Nietzsche so we are snapped out of our brain fog is a service to humanity. The world is enriched.
Thank you
Just found this channel today with this being my first video. Bravo sir... Such a good video essay! I look forward to watching more.
Welcome aboard!
Loved the video! I was actually thinking about this quote a lot recently after listening to an audiobook called "he who fights with monsters" so your timing was perfect.
Interesting!
I can tell you from personal experience that when the abyss stares back it is terrifying. For instance, have you ever thought you might have actually died from something you've done and you're in a hell where everything just repeats, until you realize? You can't think your way out of the problem, because there is no way to know, no proof.
I know that these personal weird paranoias hit hard but nowadays such a hypothetical horror feels clearly just that: weird intellectual paranoia. Still: There are enough abyses for everyone. 😁
You're supposed to embrace that.
Grieve an continue deeper.
Bring it on
You think. therefore you know that you are.
Great vid, I enjoy the longer formats alot.
Oh mein gott einen new banger video von weltgeist jaaaa
This was amazing. One of, if not the best Video analysis I‘ve seen from Nietzsche. Please keep it up🔥
Only 25 minutes in but that was an amazing breakdown of a large amount of history and theology, essentially the entire foundation of “modern” man with his platonic mindset
This is going to be good
No, it’s going to be evil!
I’m only 15 minutes in and my first time watching your channel. I just wanna say you earned my sub!
Welcome aboard!
When the videos title says Weltgeist X Nietzsche - you know this is gonna be beyond good!
...and beyond evil also😅!!
😂
There couldn't be a better thumbnail for this vid!
Thanks!
Thank you!!
Wonderful video. Thanks for putting in the work to produce vids like this. First rate.
Been studying psychology and philosophy and struggling to grapple and balance the 2 and this answered questions i didn’t know needed to be asked, continue on your path and thank you for your efforts. I hope this comment fuels you to continue what your doing (even if you are doing it for the chase of power and power over others 😉😂)
Its an honor to comment on a video like this. Excuse my overfladic focus but you deserve 10 mill subscribers
The Greeks' love for Odysseus is no mystery; he was Greek and he found a way to win.
Ya tbh this seems like the natural answer
The simplest and best answer
“I am the darkest of dark”
“I am the blackness of the abyss”
“Shadows fear my name”
I'm the tallest of mountains I am the roughest of waves
I'm the toughest of terrors I am the darkest of days
Be hot as Ice and cold as fire
Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
thank you , this video gave me answers i was searching currently
Depth and profundity are hand in hand because it's the depth which things arise out of, the trunk off which the branches manifest in their own shape but are inexorably tied to the same source. It can be interpreted in many ways because it manifests in many ways.
Thanks!
Much appreciated!
Christmas came early!
Eh the problem is that Nietche never understood the Greeks. Plato has nothing to do with Christianity whatsoever. Plato comes from a loooooong ancient tradition of what we call here in Greece Orphicopythagoreans. Philosophy is a very specific path. Achieving Eudaimonia and virtue.
Plato never talks about "escaping". Plato was Pagan. Christianity is something that was created with some elements of greek philosophy, Zoroastrianism, bit of Egypt, bit of Mesopotamia. Whatever they could use to make the dogma believable. To construct a religion in order to control the masses.
Regarding Odyssey. The name Odysseus comes from the greek verb odyssomai. It means going through struggles, being hated and so on. The journey of Odysseus is the journey back to his higher self its all full of metaphors and deep psychological meanings. And not only psychological, philosophical, astronomical it goes deep. It is literally the story of the soul on its way of "becoming". Exactly what Plato says this world is the world of "becoming" Gignesthai in greek. ΓΊΓΝΕΣΘΑΙ. Related word to genesis and gnosis. Penelope represents the soul of Odysseus... Pure greek thought is all about becoming one with the Agathon right here and now. Its all about self actualisation and uniting with the Cosmos by understanding the cosmic laws and cosmic Justice. Thats the Truth. And this is something that we are supposed to do right here and now. Not "escaping" somewhere else in the world of forms... The world of forms is to understand what is true and what is not true.
And Nietche with his german western upbringing could not grasp it, he makes wrong assumptions. Christianity is actually alien to Plato. Christianity used some aspects of greek philosophy to make the dogma a bit more sophisticated than how it was in the very beginning. Read for example Celsus (if you find a good translation as far as i know one that excists is from a translator with a very "christian approach) if you read it in greek you will be surprised to get an understanding of how greek philosophers (and he was a platonic philosopher) were seeing the first Christians. It reminds the Woke movement... Our modern Western thinking is the thinking of the metrauma that Christianity has brought. We carry on living in a metachristian upside down world. Noone has understood the greeks. To understand the greeks you need to take the rationality of the west together with the understanding of the east and then start digging deeper and deeper.
Gretings from Greece 🏛️
Thank you.
Nietzsche clearly never read East Asian Philosophy… Plato did not just make up the idea if truth many cultures did
I stared at the abyss of mirrors it fits me inside as I see my reflection consciously changing and believing on my new self.
Another great podcast, thank you...
Thanks for listening
Fine video. It's a shame that I could not, in good conscience, share it with others, due to the excessive ad breaks.
Why not get TH-cam premium or remind yourself the ad breaks is a different way of supporting a creator?
Wake up, babe! Welgeist blessed us with a new vid!
Both truth and untruth, good and evil, are true and real. It is only perception of these opposites that gives them any meaning or reality.
The laws of the universe do not see that any of them are right or wrong, they all just are.
i see these psychology videos ranging 15 to 30 mins, but one entire hour? bros trynna create Dexter
Thank you man!
Well explained. Thanks!
What's the shot from 0:37 from?
"Cave of nebula" is all I could find.
@ thank you big dawg
Adding nietzsche in top 3 psychologist of the 20th century and removing Jung is sacrilege. At best, he's an honorable mention. I'd rather place him fully in philosophy.
He is top 3.
Nietzsche, Jung, Fjodor Dostojewski.😜
Agree🎉@@lionsoultribe
Not top 3 psychologists.
The 3 horsemen of suspicion.
This ought to be good as I became that which I hated and fought to destroy. Now look... I fight to destroy myself.
I have no idea how i ended up on the philosophy algorithm but i love it here 😂
I love your channel
"If he's so smart how come he's dead?" -homer simpson.
I have an example, when you start driving you say "I don't care they honk, or move slow in front of me I will just stay calm and not do anything stupid", then only a couple months later you are the one honking at people moving too slow, getting easily annoyed.
Such a benine example fits so well
Hang on, what? 0:42
You drink black coffee?!
Nah. NAH. Be gone! In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, you Devil conceived from the bleakest womb, The Power of Christ compels you!
Thank you for this absolutely brilliant video, Weltgeist. Bra Fucking Vo.
Yup! Another Classic
Good video thank you
Anger has built me the image of the dragon itself.
thank you
An hour passed like it was nothing ❤
Sir Plzz make a video about what was Nietzche's stand on Aristotle 👍
life is one who got divided into two, and for all of its existence, all it searches for, is reuniting with the other, and which ever form, it will use its capacity, howerever it is capable, to reunite with that other. indefinetly.
Totally agree, we should value human values over money
How about becoming a being.
Conceptuallizing the ideal followed by the attempt of becoming it.
This has carried the achievements of civilization to the present.
One could say that our shortcomings are directly tied to our cuurent onging inability to shed the lies we hold.
The abiguity of what is true or false is the source of untold time and energy wasted
Decisions over solutions to existential problems must contain a higher level of truth than falsehood or extiction is tomorrow's problem.
I stared into the abyss so long that the abyss became me.
Very interesting video.
Your accent is quite intriguing. What is your first language sir? btw great approach on a dry subject matter.
I sometimes think these big-brain philosophers make up nonsense to have a laugh while we're trying to understand what they are talking about, albeit maniacal, it's also true. Here is one to think about: "Was it the apple before the tree, or the tree before the apple"
Thanks
Does anyone know the artwork used for the thumbnail?
Lucifer - Franz Von Stuck
Make videos on schopenhauer influences please
Bringing the State of Nature into the commune sounds stressful as hell, Nietche; but your hearts in the right place. Temper Mankind to perfection. Way too many 'fragiles' on this ol' fraggle rock.
Work: in physics, measure of energy transfer that occurs when an object is moved over a distance by an external force (My Will) at least part of which is applied in the direction of the displacement. (My Victim). He's telling us to put in the work! W = fd
I swiped that from Encyclopedia Britannica btw. Didn't have my Funk and Wagnels on me.
Δει ημας ιδειν εν ημιν τα απολυοντα αλλ ουκ αυτα απολυομεν.
We must behold within ourselves the things that destroy without destroying them.
(I am still in the process of learning Koine, but the wording of this sentence was so cool I had to try to make it. If anyone knows better how to convey this in Koine I would love guidance)
With subtitles! Ok! I like read letters! Is more understandable!
As a Christian he echos Christian true morality from within not from without by external coercion. Kierkegaard the same on this.
I will have to watch this at least twice but its time well spent
Very nice. Thank you ❤❤❤❤
The tag monsters is just by society the real worth of living is when you live what you truly are
I mean what can I say, in the true Nietzschian way, THANK YOU! ❤🔥
What is your other channel? And what’s the name of your podcast?
I didn't know that Miura Kentaro ("Berserk") was so inspired by Nietzsche. The Lost Children ark is basically about the same. We should face our own battles and not escape reality to look for some fairy tales. I like to see the same motives in philosophy and fiction
I love your videos ❤❤❤❤
Dont you think, that we shall rule beyond....... If not we shall help others too...... Beyond that we should see the thruth
0:42 "Grab a soda, Coke of course"
Sir. I will take my coffee however I please.
47:40 I feel this isn't very 'Nietzschean'. Creatures do things because it's in their instincts, and much compassion etc is from creatures who have simply instincts for empathy and loving and so on. I feel that recognising this isn't retreating into some 'nice' view of the world avoiding some scary ugliness, rather I think that itself has all sorts of harsh rammifications for other things. I think Nietzsche is shying away from reality a bit here. I listen to your videos and I'm often surprised by Nietzsche as I'm not into philosophy but it's like discovering someone lived long ago who thinks the same way I naturally do, but sometimes Nietzsche just suddenly comes across as... duno, a bit naive or an amateur. I guess maybe it's a reflection of his own nature as a creature he can't understand the nature of some others. The very thing he's doing in this is appealing to some sense of Universality of the 'humans', as if humans are all the same; he's talking in these universals which contradict his supposed understanding of what morality depends upon your nature as a creature, not any sort of universality or truth.
I think we all exist in our own world that centers around our emotions and we project a "avatar" of ourselves to the macrocosm or the "outer world"
Certainly, the pre Platonic Greeks were not fools bereft of a capacity to infer logically that particular actions were more important than others in achieving desirable outcomes specifically because of their inception from truth.
There is continued admiration for the "trickster" within many cultures variously through the world despite the ubiquity of Christianity.
Dare I say even more admiration, recently, through the anonymity of the internet.
He was talking about the anus
He liks it in the butt
I don't think any conscience being fell out of one,but there does seem to be quite the interest in residing in one, the ultimate echo chamber. The oldest orator of all.
@@patrickkeeney618 of big dick Randy
Holy shit you’re right
You look deep into the brown eye,and it gazes back! I get it now!
Can i have an example of “ you risking becomming a monster yourself”?
Psychographic.
Oops, apparently that's already a word. Aww, my latest attempt to invent a new word has failed.
That boy look like jokic
It just connected in my mind that quote from silent hill about the abyss sp thats where that quote came from my depressed russian man
Weltgeist, i want to translate Mainländer's oeuvre to my native language, portuguese. I can already read spanish, french and english, so that will definetly help. Besides studying german, what should i do to complete this task?
Lots of Schopenhauer and Kant
Thank you sir. Our pets don't have these problems, we do. Nietzschean domestication?
Subscribed. 👍
Welcome aboard!
Wrestle with bonum.
Do you think Nietzsche believed that the
origin of "slave morality" began with the ancient
Greek philosophers like Socrates and Plato,
whose distaste for the Homeric myths fueled
their pursuit for objective truth? Or do you think
that Nietzsche believed that "slave morality
originated more from Judeo-Christian morality?
I think he said that Nietzsche believed Plato and Socrates to be the kind of catalysts for christian morality. At 17:00 for example.
As Nietzsche said, Christianity is the platonism of the masses. Christianity (and Judaism too, see Gnostic Informant’s channel for that) took heavy inspiration from Hellenic philosophy and religion. It continued this emerging idealist worldview of the Platonists, but also in many ways also refined and perfected it.
@40:53 'ascertain' is pronounced 'a-sir-tane', not 'a-certain'.
My bad
Halfway through, wondering if this should be a warning or a manual
Any videos analyzing Eastern, specifically Chinese Philosophy?
Not really my forte
Could you make the promo 30 mins longer
no need an hour long video. The meaning of quote is - we are a sum of our experience. There's only as many times as you can be exposed to something until it leaves mark. Ask policemen or soldiers.